Los Angeles California Temple
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January 17, 2018
My first temple trip of 2018 took me from the East Coast all the way to the West Coast thanks to a $132 round-trip airfare to Los Angeles. My goal was to visit the Los Angeles and Redlands temples in one day.
Mission accomplished.
The Los Angeles Temple is the second-largest one we’ve ever built. The Salt Lake Temple is the largest with the Washington DC Temple being the third largest.
Here’s the travel log, which was really pretty fun:
- I left Washington DC Reagan airport at 6 PM Tuesday night.
- I landed in Denver at 8:30 PM.
- I left Denver at 10:10 PM and arrived at LAX around midnight.
- I slept on the floor in an isolated corner at one of the gates until 4:30 AM.
- I took four buses to arrive across the street from the Los Angeles Temple. The total cost for the buses was $2.10.
Love the inexpensive buses and audiobooks! My goal was to hit the 6:45 AM endowment session which I missed by about 20 minutes. No problem. This temple has a cafeteria that serves breakfast starting at about 7 AM. I went to the cafeteria and had the whole thing to myself. For about $7 I had a wonderful breakfast.
A temple cafeteria breakfast is one of the best around! - I hit the 8 AM endowment session on a full stomach. The rooms that you move through are absolutely huge! The cafeteria itself has ceilings that are about 30-feet high! The endowment rooms can seat almost 300 people…
- There were only six of us total on the session.
- Afterwards I went back to the cafeteria and bought a dozen of the chocolate chip cookies for my primary class. The cookies are only $1.50 for three. I bought 12 cookies for only $6.52. We’ve never had “temple cookies” in our primary class before. This will be a big hit!
- At 10:30 AM I caught another bus and ended up at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles.
- On the way we went through Beverly Hills, past Rodeo Drive, and checked out the gas prices. (I buy gas back in Washington for $2.39 a gallon…)
Gas, anyone?
I couldn’t believe how large this LA temple was. Incredible! Now we just need to fill it up with patrons 🙂
This was my 24th temple visited since January of 2017 and my first one visited in 2018!
Off to the Redlands Temple now!